College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens neemt melding aanleg 'zwarte lijst' op in register

Het College Berscherming Persoonsgegevens heeft de 'zwarte lijst' van de Vereniging Buitenlandse Adel in Nederland opgenomen in het Wbp-meldingenregister onder nummer 1371379. Dit register bevat de meldingen met betrekking tot de verwerkingen van persoonsgegevens die bij het College bescherming persoonsgegevens zijn aangemeld.

Op de zwarte lijst komen de namen (onder verwijzing van de bron) van personen die publicaties verspreiden, waarin de adel in diskrediet wordt gebracht. Te denken valt hierbij aan verkopers van 'adellijke' titels en wapens.

Ook personen die adellijke families beledigen worden op de lijst opgenomen. Een bekend voorbeeld is de onterechte beschuldigingen aan het adres van de Earl of Bradford.

Earl of Bradford falsely accused (2)

I suppose that it was almost inevitable, but one can only assume that Antony Boada, aided by his legal sidekicks Pitts-Tucker & Co, realised that legal threats were not going to work, see Breaking News, so they decided to resort to verbal attack instead - producing an amazing compilation of lies and innuendo to besmirch my good name.

Strangely they have actually accused me of many things that they are guilty of, and, as for the claim of never having been sued, many people would like to, but seem to have great difficulty in reaching Antony Boada to achieve that.

?Earl Of Bradford Caught In Major Scam - Links To Baronage Press Disclosed

The ?Right Honourable? Richard, 7th Earl of Bradford, has been caught with his pants down and is not quite as ?honourable? as he pretends to be and he is certainly not ?right? at all.

Visitors to our website have already been completely informed about the scam being perpetrated by Baronage Press in selling phony titles and trying to siphon off our clients and the clients of other vendors of titles through intimidation and extortion. Baronage Press has been a consistent and ardent detractor of British Feudal Investments for several years now and falsely claims they do not sell titles?, which they most certainly do. They want you to believe that they only expose sellers of bogus titles and swear they do not have any interest in selling titles of their own.

Our investigators have now found out that no less than the pompous and self-righteous Earl of Bradford (who has no other claim to expertise on titles of nobility other than the fact that he inherited his earldom - he is actually a pub owner with no legal qualification whatsoever) is part of the Baronage Press scam.

Complicity of Bradford in Scam

The next step in the scam is that they received an e-mail or if possible a phone call from one of Baronage Press? front companies such as Pegasus Limited, an offshore Guernsey company, and Hogarth?s wife?s, Patricia, tells them that they got by pure chance, a one in a million coincidence, the very same title which the inquirer had bought - but the ?real? one - and that it is available for a whopping £250,000.

AND GUESS WHO RE-SELLS YOU THE TITLE THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY PURCHASED LEGITIMATELY FOR A TENTH OF THE COST?? YES, THE EARL OF BRADFORD JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE YOUR TITLE AVAILABLE AND BY ?TWISTING? HIS ARM THROUGH THE GOOD GRACES OF BARONAGE PRESS, THE EARL IS WILLING TO SELL IT TO YOU AT THE OUTRAGEOUS PRICE ABOVE MENTIONED.

It is little wonder that when we discovered these facts, the Earl went on the defensive and set up and elaborate website bashing all vendors of titles other than the Manorial Society of Great Britain? which coincidentally Baronage Press also has mentioned as a legitimate vendor of feudal titles.

Of course, quite a number of you have been intelligent enough to hear both sides of the story and once you have known the true facts, you have proceeded to acquire feudal titles through BFI. We thank these wiser and discriminating clients who are not so easily fooled by this trio of bandits who seek to rip the public off in such an outrageous and major way. (Unfortunately the clients are more likely to be sadder and sorry)

It speaks for itself that the Earl of Bradford in his website runs an ?exclusive? interview with the editor of Baronage Press, who of course vouches for everything he says. This clearly shows the relationship between the two

Despite all the defamation we are happy to report that British Feudal Investments has never once been sued in its fifteen year history; (This will not be the case for much longer, the noose is closing hence this desperate attempt to justify himself) nor has it ever had to pay monies to avoid and settle any lawsuits outside of court - something which the Manorial Society consistently has had to do and we have been investigated and cleared by the UK Department of Trade an Industry and even received a letter of appreciation from the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad for our help in giving evidence and information related to titles fraud on the internet. Our competitors and detractors claim we are just about to land in jail and they have been claiming this on the internet for over two years now? yet BFI is here to stay and our doors remain open for business as usual.

We have joined a class action lawsuit against Baronage Press and the Earl of Bradford and are seeking remedies. Some of our viewers have asked why we do not pursue the matter more aggressively. Our reply is that lawsuits are a very expensive matter and considering the negligible impact these defamations have had upon our business, we have often decided it was not cost-effective and would consume too much of the time we would rather spend serving you, our clients. Nevertheless, we cannot ignore the impact of any damage to our business and reputation that Bradford, Baronage Press and their financier Manorial Society may cause or may have caused us and we are taking appropriate legal action. (As usual his words speak louder than his actions!)

It is a sorry matter to see someone like the Earl of Bradford stoop so low and sink to such a degraded form of doing business as he is doing with his website. Most readers by now are pretty sick of his and Baronage Press? modus operandi and indeed one can conclude that the only thing ?noble? about the Earl of Bradford is his title? his behaviour is suitable for the gutter and it is probably brazen, thoughtless, and arrogant actions such as the establishment of his website that led to the popular demand by the British people to terminate his and the other hereditary peers? right to sit and vote in the House of Lords by the present government.

We wish he?d live up to the noble standards he preaches but certainly does not practice.

Additional Warning

Please also note that when you visit the website of Lord Bradford and Baronage Press you get a special treat: a COOKIE? A cookie is planted into your computer without your even knowing it. A cookie traces your every move, letter, e-mail, IM?s, internet searches and browses - even your private banking transactions. Believe it or not Baronage Press in conjunction with their cohort, the Earl of Bradford, have used this private information to extort and blackmail browsers of their website. We know of one case where the duo of Hogarth and Blacker threatened a client in the process of a lawsuit to give to the opposing side full information on all of the client?s bank accounts and properties unless he paid $55,000.

(Evidently, Boada doesn't even know what a "cookie" is, despite the huge number on the Front Page alone of his British Feudal Investments site!! Below is a good site which describes the limits to what a "cookie" can achieve. As you'll see, a "cookie" can NOT access your hard drive, read your emails or follow you around the Internet. They are also not obtained by replying to an email.

[Quote from Webopedia:] Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems. They are merely text files that can be deleted at any time - they are not plug ins nor are they programs. Cookies cannot be used to spread viruses and they cannot access your hard drive. The cookie will only contain information that you freely provide to a Web site.)

Appalled, the client told us that he had never even seen the Baronage Press website. He did, however, view the website of the Earl of Bradford extensively and did so several times. We think it?s much more than a coincidence that the extortion threat however came from Baronage Press which has long been known to use the cookie device on its victims.

Our private investigators, specialised in computers, confirmed that cookies were being planted by the Bradford website. It becomes further obvious that Bradford passed this information to Baronage Press to complete the hatchet job on the client? If you plan on reviewing their websites please know that this is not the first time we have received this sort of complaint or information about their planting of cookies and subsequent blackmails - also it might do well to remember ?never take candy from a stranger?? especially cookies.?

Having finally caught my breath, I would advise you to treat this with the contempt that it deserves, however, it does demonstrate that the truth must be hitting home and really hurting Antony Boada for him to be reduced to sinking to these depths.

Good, but, with luck, he will be feeling even more uncomfortable soon as the law finally starts to catch up with him.

http://www.faketitles.com/html/mud_slinging.html

Earl of Bradford

Earl of Bradford falsely accused (1)

A letter was sent to us by Pitts-Tucker & Co, dated 26th July 2002, received at VIP Internet two days later, on behalf of their clients Mr Antony Boada and British Feudal Investments, making all sorts of threats of legal action if we did not remove what they considered to be the many defamatory remarks about their clients, and also cease the use of their copyrighted logo.

The logo has been changed, but as far as the rest is concerned, I responded: ?Regarding - British Feudal Investments and Mr Antony Boada: My office in England seems to have received a rather strange letter from you, alleging that we are defaming your client. How can the truth be defamatory? Would your client kindly provide proof that the titles that he is selling, including the many on eBay, are genuine, and obviously I will change my opinion?

Best wishes, Richard, Earl of Bradford - a genuine title?

We also received a further letter, dated the 29th of July, referring to other sections of the site in a similar vein, but specifically about the involvement of Pitts-Tucker & Co, and requesting me to remove any reference to them. I replied by e-mail:

Thank you for your second letter, the receipt of it has been noted. Before I respond further though, could you explain why Pitts-Tucker & Co are misusing the apostille from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to persuade your client's (Mr Boada?s) victims that his bogus titles are recognised by the Crown?

If you have not already viewed the information about British Feudal Investments, I would suggest that you might enjoy reading about their exploits.

Then September the 16th was a red letter day in the history of the Fake Titles website as I was faxed missives from both Pitts-Tucker & Co and Mario Lamar, Boada?s lawyer in Miami. Not too surprisingly Mr Lamar will not allow me to reproduce his varied threats, but I replied as follows: ?The British Feudal Investments logo has been removed from the banner for the British Feudal Investments page on Fake Titles, and also from the Mudslinging page, now it only contains words; surely you cannot object to that. The Hyperlinks have been removed, and we have merely included directions on how to find the British Feudal Investments site.

We would be delighted to received proof that the titles your client sells are genuine, and would then be happy to remove any reference to him and British Feudal Investments from the Fake Titles site, however, given the huge quantity of letters and e-mails of complaint about him that we have in our possession, without having received any that have praised his services, I think that you may find the task a rather difficult one. I also feel that you should examine very carefully the allegations made on your client's site, see Bradford Scam on British Feudal Investments site, as there are several serious accusations against me, most of which are actionable; it would be very easy to prove, for instance, that I am not involved in a Scam to sell a title for GBP 250,000, and there are no 'Cookies' on my site, whereas there are plenty on his.

I should warn you that I have kept a copy of the Bradford Scam page from his website, and would suggest that you stop making any continuing threats of action against me, before I decide to do something about your client's strange and libellous allegations.?

Also if you want to learn more about Antony Boada and Pitts-Tucker & Co and how they operate to part unsuspecting title seekers from their money, do visit the excellently compiled Noble Scams, prepare to be amazed by the depths to which they will sink.

Strangely, having complained vociferously about the actions of eBay in selling not only the spurious Scottish Lairdships, but also more recently the manufactured titles of Boada, I got the following e-mail from eBay on the 31st of July. ?We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due to the violation of our site policy below: False or missing contact information - Falsifying or omitting your name, address, and/or telephone number (including use of fax machines, pager numbers, modems or disconnected numbers). Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This prohibition includes the registering of a new account.? Was this a total coincidence? After two days of complaining about it, my registration was re-confirmed.

And on the 21st of August, another one joined the fray, as I received this e-mail from the owner of Noble Titles: ?I hereby give you 7 days due service. Failure to remove all slanderous reference to Noble Titles from your web site will be immediately followed with joint action against you and your Web Host. Furthermore you have infringed international copyright law in using some of our materials in particular our organisations Logo. Finally I expect a full and personal apology for your disgraceful behaviour.?

Finally, a fortnight later, his solicitor Leonard Warner did write a letter threatening action on numerous grounds, to which I replied: ?If your client can prove to our complete satisfaction that he is actually selling genuine Lordships of the Manor, and describing, in the correct fashion, what you can call yourself if you have purchased a Lordship from his company, then we would be very happy to remove any reference to him and his company from the Fake Titles website.? Since that time, the owner of Noble Titles has continually bombarded me with e-mails of complaint; however, he consistently fails to answer the one very simple question of whether he is selling genuine Lordships of the Manor or not.

Leonard Warner produced a final warning letter on the 4th March 2003, giving us one week to change what we said about Noble Titles, stating that they would sue everybody from my solicitor to Cable & Wireless; this got everybody jumping up and down but proved to be as empty a threat as every previous one.

They continue to offer completely made up Lordships of the Manor through eBay on a regular basis, amassing many ten of thousands of pounds a year; apparently the legitimacy of the sale is supported by the Law Society?s Unlimited Liability Insurance - strangely according to the Law Society this does not exist.

On September 10th 2002 Sovereign Classics also joined in the hunt for Bradford with the following illiterate offering:

?We in the process to check your allegations by our law firm and lawyer of peerage law. As a matter of fact you cannot do any allegations without any proof or evidences. That means what you are mentioning on your site that we are offering fake titles is illegal because you have no evidences about what and your partners are doing. You have to understand that you have not the right to say that this person is guilty with any evidences. That's what the law say and if you do so you will get a fine for that. Again that's what the law say. We do a lot of nobility affairs in the Germanic area legally and you give the impression we are doing those things illegal or with fake titles. As I mentioned in a previous email that we are working with a very high ranked German nobility who is very close related to the royal family and that person is more than up set about your wrong allegations. He will discuss with lawyers too and will go after that legally too. Furthermore, we or our lawyers have got evidences about your very close relationship to those companies what you mention as good guys. One of those company is selling titles like the other companies are doing. The other company have the proof of authentic titles. Why you are saying they selling fake titles? We have the very strong feeling that you are doing a not so honest competition battle in the title business. There are some not so nice things what was happened on that end. We have to proof of dealing with original titles at our law firm. We treat all those things in privacy, but we will disclose all those things at court. Further we will sue all those people are trying to attack and doing allegations like you do without evidences. As a matter of fact we will sue for 1 Million GBP. You have your very last chance to clean that mess. If you ignore our message or going further on illegal steps than we will see definitely at court.?

As usual nothing happened. However, they continued to further threaten me; the last offering was in February 2004, this accused me of everything from fraud in Spain to being a well-known drunk, it might be amusing if it weren?t so puerile. Apparently though they have now gone out of business, and have been removed from Fake Titles as a result, somehow I do not feel that they will be missed.

Earl of Bradford